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Kevin Willmott
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In short · Writing since 1999, 4 decades active, 13 credits, 1 Academy Award win.
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Biography
Kevin Willmott (born August 31, 1959) is an Academy Award-winning American film director and screenwriter. He is known for work focusing on Black issues, including writing and directing *Ninth Street*, *C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America*, and *Bunker Hill*.
His *The Only Good Indian* (2009) was a feature film about Native American children at an Indian boarding school and the forced assimilation that took place. In *Jayhawkers* (2014), he followed the life of Wilt Chamberlain, Phog Allen, and the 1956 Kansas Jayhawks basketball team. Willmott has collaborated with Spike Lee, with whom he shared an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for *BlacKkKlansman*. The two again collaborated in writing *Da 5 Bloods*, released worldwide digitally on June 12, 2020.
Willmott is a professor of film at the University of Kansas.
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Director
6 credits
Writer
3 credits
Actor
2 credits
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1 winAcademy Awards
- Won2018Oscar — Writing (adapted Screenplay)
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- Chasing Chasing AmySelf - Academy Award-Winning Screenwriter, BlacKkKlansman · 2023
- Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black FilmmakingSelf · 2021
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